Friday, December 16, 2016

Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice.
Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the
participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest,
the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Beginning:

It's not every day a gleaming, burgundy Rolls-Royce proceeds down the long driveway of the Jacobs Grand Hotel.

Friday 56:

She smiled at him, and after shaking his hand--slightly damp, perhaps from the condensation on the glass--she turned her attention to his wife, who appeared younger than her husband by at least two decades.

This week I am reading Ill Met by Murder by Elizabeth J. Duncan. I got this eARC from NetGalley. Here is the description from Amazon:

It’s the most important night of the year for costume designer Charlotte
Fairfax and the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company--the annual fund
raising performance at the country estate of the wealthy widow Paula Van
Dusen. This year, the company will give a moonlight performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
as part of the wedding celebrations for Paula's daughter, Belinda, and
her fiance Adrian. But then Hugh Hedley, family friend of the Van Dusens
and Adrian's rival in the cutthroat world of high-end Manhattan real
estate, is found murdered with a stolen prop from the play.

Paula,
desperate to keep her daughter’s name of out of the paper, enlists
Charlotte's help, despite the fact that Charlotte's already got her
hands full amidst her costume design responsibilities and finding a home
for the company's new theater school. But Charlotte nevertheless throws
herself into an investigation of shady business deals, a missing dog,
and long buried family secrets because "though she be but little, she is
fierce!" Ill Met by Murder, the second in Elizabeth J. Duncan's compelling mystery series, will satisfy every Shakespeare and mystery lover alike.

About Me

I was a school library/media specialist for a small school district in Southeast Minnesota. I retired after 41 years in media centers in June 2017.
I love reading! My favorite genres are adult, YA and Middle Grade paranormals, science fiction/fantasy, and mysteries. I am also a fan of adult romances and romantic suspense.
I maintain two book blogs. Ms. Martin Teaches Media is used to blather about the YA books I read. Inside of a Dog is my home for the adult books I read.

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